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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: but beds. In the kitchen cooking and eating go forward side by
side, and the family sleep at night. Any one who has a fancy to
wash must do so in public at the common table. The food is
sometimes spare; hard fish and omelette have been my portion more
than once; the wine is of the smallest, the brandy abominable to
man; and the visit of a fat sow, grouting under the table and
rubbing against your legs, is no impossible accompaniment to
dinner.
But the people of the inn, in nine cases out of ten, show
themselves friendly and considerate. As soon as you cross the
doors you cease to be a stranger; and although these peasantry are
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